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The Health Commission of China has raised this Thursday to 170 those killed by the outbreak of the new coronavirus in the country and a total of 7,711 confirmed cases , spread across 31 Chinese provinces. Authorities suspect that a total of 4,148 people could be affected, although the total number of suspected cases of coronavirus amounts to 12,167 people , reports Europa Press.

An isolated man in Malaga

The Preventive Medicine service of the Regional Hospital of Malaga has decided to enter in isolation a man, whose data have not transcended, due to a possible case of coronavirus, given that in recent days he could have been in contact with people from the area of ​​China where there have been cases of contagion.

Health sources have informed Europa Press, this man said Wednesday he was admitted to the hospital emergency room when presenting a flu picture , subsequently finding that he could have been in contact with people in the area of ​​China where there are cases of infection of coronavirus .

In this way, the entry into isolation will remain until the tests determine whether or not you suffer from this virus . Hospital professionals have implemented the monitoring and isolation protocol decreed by the General Directorate of Public Health.

Iberia temporarily suspends flights to China

Iberia has decided to temporarily suspend its flights with Shanghai because of the coronavirus, since this Friday and, for the moment, during the month of February. Customers with already issued tickets can request a refund or a change of date, Eduardo Fernández reports.

The Spanish airline usually operates three weekly trips and trips between Madrid and that Chinese city in an Airbus 330-200 in which 292 passengers travel. Iberia thus joins other companies that have announced the same measure in recent hours.

This early Wednesday, British Airways , partner of Iberia in the IAG holding company, had announced the immediate suspension of all its flights to mainland China following an instruction from the United Kingdom. The British company covered several daily journeys from Heathrow Airport, in London, and Beijing.

On the other hand, Air France has reduced to a daily flight to the capital and another one to Shanghai its operations with China. So far, he made 10 weeks a week to the first destination and 13 to the second, respectively. This company no longer made trips to Wuhan.

The repatriated Spaniards will spend quarantine

Fernando Simón, director of the Center for Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies of the Ministry of Health, has reported that Spaniards who are repatriated from Wuhan on flights funded in part by the EU and chartered by France and the United Kingdom in the coming days will pass the quarantine held in facilities that are currently being prepared in Spain.

Before leaving China they will pass a check established by the Chinese authorities to prevent sick people from leaving, he explained in statements to TVE collected by Europa Press, and upon arrival in Spain they will be evaluated by Foreign Health teams , as is done on these occasions and they will be transferred to the facilities prepared for this purpose.

"Healthy people are repatriated," he warned, and "if there is no symptom that justifies their isolation as patients, they will be quarantined in facilities they are preparing." "It is early to say the places not to disturb but they will be perfectly suitable places to spend comfortable quarantine respecting all the needs and will be able, as healthy people as they are, to live normal life within the quarantine zone."

Simon has not been able to specify at what time this repatriation will take place because contacts and negotiations continue, but he has said that they will be on several flights in the next few days "I don't know if tomorrow, the day after, Saturday or Sunday," he said.

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